2 MARCH 1996, page 36

At Berry Hill

This afternoon, nothing rests. Traffic presses over the brow of the hill; tortoiseshells dip over the buddleia and the thistles. The wind flaps and a newspaper rustles. On the......

Books

A disagreeable go-between Francis King FOREIGN COUNTRY: THE LIFE OF L. P. HARTLEY by Adrian Wright Deutsch, f17.99, pp. 296 A lthough almost a quarter of a century has passed......

Developing Frivolous Complications

David Montrose THIS IS IT by Joseph Connolly Faber, £8.99, pp. 310 M odern specimens of the British comic novel generally bear some resemblance to the following identikit: a......